George Antheil Quotes
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I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.
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There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.
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Faith sir! She looks like the Old Course.
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It's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just wanna live while I'm alive It's my life
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There's no magical relationship between inverted yield curves and recession. There's a debate why long-term rates are so low. It's partly a low term premium and a lot of saving looking for a relatively limited number of investments.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.
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Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.
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He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.
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My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.
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In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits with workers... He was told he was a socialist, that he was not welcome on Wall Street.
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What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts.
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In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
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The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.
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I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.
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With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems.
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So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one
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Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.
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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.
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What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.
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It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.
